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From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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This feeling of being at one with God and man, this emerging from isolation through the open and honest sharing of our terrible burden of guilt, brings us to a resting place where we may prepare ourselves for the following Steps toward a full and meaningful sobriety.
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We A.A.'s cannot pretend to offer full answers to age-old perplexities, but our own experience does provide certain answers that work for us.
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At last experience taught us that to take away any alcoholic's full chance was sometimes to pronounce his death sentence, and often to condemn him to endless misery.
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To watch the eyes of men and women open with wonder as they move from darkness into light, to see their lives quickly fill with new purpose and meaning, to see whole families reassembled, to
see the alcoholic outcast received back into his community in
full citizenship, and above all to watch these people awaken to the presence of a loving God in their lives -- these things are the substance of
what we receive as we carry
A.A.'s message to the next alcoholic.
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The real tests of the situation are your own willingness to confide
and your full confidence
in the one with whom you share
your first accurate self-survey.
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For the readiness to take
the full consequences of
our past acts, and to take responsibility for
the well-being of others at the same time, is the very spirit of Step Nine.
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It did not satisfy us to be told that we could not control
our drinking just because we were maladjusted to life, that we
were in full flight from reality, or were outright mental defectives.
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When the Twelfth Step is seen in its full implication, it is really talking about the kind of love that has no price tag
on it.
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It marked the time when we
could commence to see the
full implication of Step Seven: "Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings."
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The association wanted
to use our member's full name in all its advertising; he was to be
described both as its director of publicity and as a member of
Alcoholics Anonymous.
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We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn't control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we
couldn't make a living, we had
a feeling of uselessness, we were full of
fear, we were unhappy, we
couldn't seem to be of real help to other people -- was not a basic solution of these bedevilments more important than whether we
should see newsreels of lunar flight?
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A tumbler full of gin followed by half a dozen bottles of beer would be required if I were to eat any breakfast.
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The Bible, we said, was full of nonsense; we could cite it chapter and verse, and we couldn't see the Beatitudes for the 'begats.'
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Who is more unpopular than
the oldtime A.A., full of wisdom, who moves to another area and tries to tell the group there how to run its business?
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This was the substance of A.A.'s Twelve Traditions, which are stated in full on page 561 of this book.
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Service, gladly rendered, obligations squarely met, troubles well accepted or solved with God's help, the knowledge that at home or in
the world outside we are partners in a common effort, the well-understood fact that in God's sight all human beings are important, the proof that love freely given surely brings a full return, the certainty that
we are no longer isolated and alone in self-constructed prisons, the surety that we need no longer be square pegs in round holes but can fit and belong in God's scheme of things -- these are
the permanent and legitimate satisfactions of right living for which no amount of pomp and circumstance, no heap of material possessions, could possibly be substitutes.
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That will arise in the occasional situation
where to make a full revelation would seriously harm the one to whom we are making amends.
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"Suddenly the thought crossed my mind that if I were
to put an ounce of whiskey in my milk it couldn't
hurt me on a full stomach.
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I vaguely sensed I was not
being any too smart, but felt reassured as I was taking
the whiskey on a full stomach.
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Since recovery from alcoholism is life itself to us, it is imperative that we preserve in full strength our means of survival.
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To return to the subject matter of this book: It contains full suggestions by which the employee may solve his problem.
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Only thirty years later the conquest of the air was almost an old story and airplane travel was in full swing.
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To save whole areas from turmoil, small offices had to be set up, telephones installed,
and a few full-time secretaries hired.
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The small group may elect its secretary, the large group its rotating committee, and
the groups of a large metropolitan area their central or intergroup committee, which often employs a full-time secretary.
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The small group may elect its secretary, the large group its rotating committee, and
the groups of a large metropolitan area their central or intergroup committee, which often employs a full-time secretary.
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